"I love my wife. I write songs. I have no clue what's next."
The beautiful time transporting song Without Your Love by Kyle Cox might stun you upon first listen. Your brain might not simply accept that this track is a modern one. Cox with an amazing amount of reverence for the genre writes music in (for the most part) the light blues jazz flow and swing of the 30's, 40's (and possibly into the 50's). His third album "Perhaps One Day" (2019) lovingly embraced the "sounds of the Mills Brothers, Billie Holiday and the Ink Spots" and in similar fashion, Without Your Love, rolls in the same genuine way. The sound is garnered with love and reverence as well. Cox does not shortcut the process with fake instruments or plugins that model instrument sounds. The strings are provided by a real string quartet (as provided by Oren Tsor) with other players being Paul Defiglia on bass, Mathew Wright on Keys, Brian Cox on drums and Kyle Cox singing (and on guitar).
I posted an op ed piece (on YouTube) about my disdain for the very popular Post Modern Jukebox. I find re-interpreting iconic rock and pop songs through vintage blues and jazz motifs as creatively lazy and ultimately disrespecting a whole lot of artists works on both sides. It also devalues an entire genre and time period. Artists like Kyle Cox do the exact opposite. When you write your own original work within a certain roots based genre it is true art, not some money grab novel facsimile of art. I don't care to see someone playfully vocalizing a trumpet solo on David Bowie's iconic Life On Mars.
Kyle Cox's Without Your Love with it's blues jazz sway, languid bass and drums, beautifully stirring strings and tender earnest vocals, is an ethereal slow dance in a dark club or a well lit kitchen between two people who love each other.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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I love my wife. I write songs. I have no clue what's next.
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